Tretyakov Gallery will not leave a set of the Central House of Artists on the Crimean shaft which it shares with the International Confederation of Artists' Union, until it is not a new building. «Gallery set strict conditions: we must not break to continue their activities in the previous walls and move to new premises, only when it is ready to" turn-key ". Then the building will be able to act according to CHA developed by urban plan », - said the deputy director of the museum, Irina Lebedeva. She cites RIA «News».

According to Irina Lebedeva, the gallery needs its own building: «We do not perceive as a museum, but as a joint exhibition with CHA».

statement followed by Lebedeva, after Vladimir Resin, the head of the building complex of Moscow, set up a working group to design the new building of the gallery on the Crimean Val.

Remember that the capital government in 2001 announced a competition for the reconstruction of the building CHA, but the results were considered unsatisfactory. In spring 2008 on the newly emerged information about the possible construction of a new building or renovation of old. Both versions have been associated with the initiative of companies «INTECH» build on Krymsky Val 15-storey multifunctional complex «orange». Thursday, 21 August 2008, Sergey Baidak, Prefect of the Central District, reported that the demolition of CHA is not accepted. «This is an elaboration of this issue on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation», - quotes Baidakova «Interfax».

Observer newspaper «Kommersant» Gregory Ревзин, commenting on the establishment of a working group to design a building on the Crimean Tretyakov Val, suggesting that, judging by the Commission, this is not about replacing one building to another, but the design of a « urban area ».

Source: lenta.ru